Retirement with No Problem

Stretham to Nr Popes Corner, River Great Ouse, 2 miles or so

My eyes opened this morning to some sunshine.. hooray, and it wasn’t long ‘till I took the girls out along the river bank.  Even the wind was beginning to calm down.  Just along from where we were moored is the Stretham Old Engine, which, along with all the tools and fenland relics, is housed in the pump house…

The engine was built in 1831 to left water from the fenlands to the Old West River, that is the part of river we are on at the moment.

I noticed that they have improved the moorings here since we last came, and there are spaces to moor and go visit this place which is open at the weekends during the summer.  They have special days too when they actually run the engine.

After getting back from the walk and not far from No Problem I was approached by two people asking if I was from No Problem.. Ha Ken and Karen from Cambridge had noticed Lucy and Meg and put the three of us together!

It was a pleasure to meet you both, and you sure are stars.. reading my blog every day for the last two years is quite some feat!  Thankyou for your fabulous support.. Here you are then as promised!..

Hopefully meet you again when we are in the area next year..

You can see our lawn was cut this morning outside the boat… this is a very nice mooring at the Lazy Otter, but it was onward for us just after lunch to pick up a very small top up for the weekend order from Mr Tesco from Popes Corner.  We can just about get on the 4ft pontoon with a bit of careful mooring.. sadly the boatyard here is not selling diesel any longer and the pub, the Fish and Duck is gradually falling down through neglect since it closed..

Having collected that we settled not far away for the weekend hoping the weather will be a little better.. oh here is a line of geese… all 35 of them…